We’re pleased to announce that we have added a training date to the diary. While the 22nd February Reading event is still accepting bookings, we’ve had interest in the East Midlands for an earlier session than the April 26th date on offer. So we’re pleased to say that we have added a date – Friday...

A sobering thought for those involved in training, from Mike Myatt writing in Forbes this week. “Here’s the thing – when it comes to leadership, the training industry has been broken for years. You don’t train leaders you develop them – a subtle yet important distinction lost on many. Leadership training is...

Indigo Verve were the winners of the prize draw at the ‘Growing Through Challenging Times’ conference this September at CMI in Corby, becoming the proud owners of a MAPP Start-Up set. Novelette Williams, Managing Director of Indigo Verve, shares her experiences: “We utilised our new Mapp Start-Up set to both support...

A fascinating article in the Guardian this morning “Driving revenue and growth through Facebook” What’s your take on this? When you’ve read the article, then why not take our poll, and tell us what you really think?…. JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work. Online Surveys by Constant...

There has been much traffic, some bang-on some nonsense, about whether anyone can be trained to be an entrepreneur. The general output seems to be that we are probably all born with it but clearly in different measures and, much like many other skills, how we are nurtured and educated may determine how much of

I’ve just received my certificate from SFEDI, the UK Sector Skills Body for Enterprise. The first certificate I’ve had in many years. Many thousands of others have now received their own as well, having successfully completed ‘An Introduction to Enterprise Mentoring’ as part of the mentoring scheme...

For all of us who are coaches, mentors, trainers consultants or just plain visual doodlers there is a new product in town (US ones only at the moment) that just does everything you have ever wanted all those electronic gadgets to do but never have. Called the Noteboard, what it is is an amazingly simple

Risk is one of those concepts that appears to be difficult to pin down. We all seem to have a different take on it, and our attitudes can change depending on what’s at risk. We’re in business, so we deal with risk every day, and we know how that can sometimes be both invigorating and

Applied Knowledge recently helped out with the delivery of FLUX which is a inter-university business competition held every year to test out students’ creativity and strategic thinking skills. Moreoever, it aims to help the very same students think more openly about what sort of jobs they could have when they leave...

About a year ago I went to my first poetry slam which was, like few other things in life, a completely new experience. The potential of what or who was coming next was engaging to the point of intoxication and left me wanting more. So it was with a wry smile that I sat at